unapologetically murder a random store manager after finding a piece of litter from his establishment
So, not even a case of the store owner doing something wrong, but a customer of his discards the bag on a beach (presumably), a sea turtle eats it, and that warrants killing the store owner? That's psychopathic.
Strictly speaking by the comic frames, it isn't clear it's the store owner, and it isn't clear if it is a Franchise or a sole prop. The ambiguity present allows it to be a random cashier clerk she stabs in the neck with scissors.
She (equivalently) saw a Walmart bag in the ocean, so she stabbed some greeter.
Some good news. The site I use to find these comics in bottles on the high sea are generally reacting the same way towards this, calling the writer a psychopath and criticizing the actions of the two characters involved. Nature Girl is being compared to full blown villains and Curse is being labeled as per the comic as "evil".
Similar to how recent DC comics have posed Superman [Jon, not Clark] standing with a crowd of eco-protestors holding signs with "There is no planet B", [even though Jon's father is not only literally an alien himself, so Earth IS planet B for him, but the League and others know there are multiple planets that can be inhabited and reached by many in DC stories] the recent events in the X-Men comics included the mutants terraforming Mars so that it is now inhabited by mutants. Nature Girl's complaint here is that she's allergic to the planet so "it doesn't count" despite the two main choices being: allergies vs death.
Of course the comic goes with the hyperbolic route that even though there is a safety net in the form of the terraformed Mars because 'it is icky and allergies and stuff' that's enough to warrant lashing out at what is effectively a minimum wage worker of a company causing the problems addressed.
Whatever the writer was going for with this it's not going down well in the slightest. And that's a good thing.
What I don't get about the "nature themed" heroes, is that nature themed heroes are all hypocrites. All of them. No exceptions. And it is never brought up.
I have yet to see a nature-themed hero scream in rage and just wreck a bird's nest. Or go ham on a beaver dam. Or terminate a termite mound. Every construct of animals is perfectly fine... unless the animal is human, in which case it drives them nuts.
Humans cast off poisons. Yeah. So do pine trees. They acidify soil around them to reduce competition. Should Nature Girl be advocating the clear-cutting of old growth pines? We leave our cast-offs about. So do hermit crabs. Do we get a scene where she stomps on coconut crabs for discarding their shell waste?
I have seen exactly ONE "true" druid, who admired the ebb and flow of rush hour traffic the same as one would admire a game trail in heavy use, or of a river teeming with salmon. Who likened skyrises with hundreds of people to beehives with hundreds of bees, each doing their own thing but building the whole as they went. And that one STILL had moments of "nature better because not human".
They seem to all think that since its done with lower order thinking processes, such as pure instinct, then its all fine as they "balance" one another. Its only evil because man has free will/sentience and thereby can commit "sin" instead of just being an animal.
Of course this ignores things like invasive species, or certain smarter animals like dolphins doing drugs, raping, and acting for only pleasure. You know, the exact sins man is responsible for, but its okay because reasons.
If one of them went out and just exterminated all the rabbits in Australia, or all the nutria rats in America, they would do more for "nature" than probably every single Green Hero in history.
Its only evil because man has free will/sentience and thereby can commit "sin" instead of just being an animal.
Of course this ignores things like invasive species
A lot of these idiots will have cats which are a very good example of destructive, invasive species that cause localized extinction of small birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibs. They don't even bother to eat most of what they kill and won't even kill most of what they attack.
Then there's the whole toxo issue which is another literal crazy bag of cats.
The most annoying part is that this would be an EXCELLENT origin story for a villain in the same vein as Magneto. Unfortunately, nu-Marvel won't have the balls or good sense to go down that path.
Orchis already created several Nimrod units, which according to Moria, is always the beginning of the end in every timeline. Hopefully not too long now, just depends how many bad stories they want to spin in the meantime.
This is sickening. Is this really what is being sold to people as "heroism" nowadays?
EDIT: This reminds me of that scene in one of the recent X-Men movies where Logan stabs a guy in the hand with a poisoned arrow for shooting a bear with a poisoned arrow and not tracking it down to put it out of it's misery. I'm sorry, but in no world is killing a man just recompense for killing a bear. They tried to spin it as a cool moment but it totally took me out of the movie.
So, not even a case of the store owner doing something wrong, but a customer of his discards the bag on a beach (presumably), a sea turtle eats it, and that warrants killing the store owner? That's psychopathic.
Strictly speaking by the comic frames, it isn't clear it's the store owner, and it isn't clear if it is a Franchise or a sole prop. The ambiguity present allows it to be a random cashier clerk she stabs in the neck with scissors.
She (equivalently) saw a Walmart bag in the ocean, so she stabbed some greeter.
Some good news. The site I use to find these comics in bottles on the high sea are generally reacting the same way towards this, calling the writer a psychopath and criticizing the actions of the two characters involved. Nature Girl is being compared to full blown villains and Curse is being labeled as per the comic as "evil".
Similar to how recent DC comics have posed Superman [Jon, not Clark] standing with a crowd of eco-protestors holding signs with "There is no planet B", [even though Jon's father is not only literally an alien himself, so Earth IS planet B for him, but the League and others know there are multiple planets that can be inhabited and reached by many in DC stories] the recent events in the X-Men comics included the mutants terraforming Mars so that it is now inhabited by mutants. Nature Girl's complaint here is that she's allergic to the planet so "it doesn't count" despite the two main choices being: allergies vs death.
Of course the comic goes with the hyperbolic route that even though there is a safety net in the form of the terraformed Mars because 'it is icky and allergies and stuff' that's enough to warrant lashing out at what is effectively a minimum wage worker of a company causing the problems addressed.
Whatever the writer was going for with this it's not going down well in the slightest. And that's a good thing.
What I don't get about the "nature themed" heroes, is that nature themed heroes are all hypocrites. All of them. No exceptions. And it is never brought up.
I have yet to see a nature-themed hero scream in rage and just wreck a bird's nest. Or go ham on a beaver dam. Or terminate a termite mound. Every construct of animals is perfectly fine... unless the animal is human, in which case it drives them nuts.
Humans cast off poisons. Yeah. So do pine trees. They acidify soil around them to reduce competition. Should Nature Girl be advocating the clear-cutting of old growth pines? We leave our cast-offs about. So do hermit crabs. Do we get a scene where she stomps on coconut crabs for discarding their shell waste?
I have seen exactly ONE "true" druid, who admired the ebb and flow of rush hour traffic the same as one would admire a game trail in heavy use, or of a river teeming with salmon. Who likened skyrises with hundreds of people to beehives with hundreds of bees, each doing their own thing but building the whole as they went. And that one STILL had moments of "nature better because not human".
They seem to all think that since its done with lower order thinking processes, such as pure instinct, then its all fine as they "balance" one another. Its only evil because man has free will/sentience and thereby can commit "sin" instead of just being an animal.
Of course this ignores things like invasive species, or certain smarter animals like dolphins doing drugs, raping, and acting for only pleasure. You know, the exact sins man is responsible for, but its okay because reasons.
If one of them went out and just exterminated all the rabbits in Australia, or all the nutria rats in America, they would do more for "nature" than probably every single Green Hero in history.
A lot of these idiots will have cats which are a very good example of destructive, invasive species that cause localized extinction of small birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibs. They don't even bother to eat most of what they kill and won't even kill most of what they attack.
Then there's the whole toxo issue which is another literal crazy bag of cats.
Do cats come from outer space?
Well, according to this documentary...
https://web.archive.org/web/20211128135913/https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22796160/invasive-species-climate-change-range-shifting
No homo, but I love you for this.
Marvel has steadily gotten worse over the years. They are super woke and keeps destroying the classics by pushing idiocy.
It's not just idiocy that they're pushing. This is outright eco-terrorism.
Ah, it was written by Duggan. That explains why it's more shit than normal.
The most annoying part is that this would be an EXCELLENT origin story for a villain in the same vein as Magneto. Unfortunately, nu-Marvel won't have the balls or good sense to go down that path.
Orchis already created several Nimrod units, which according to Moria, is always the beginning of the end in every timeline. Hopefully not too long now, just depends how many bad stories they want to spin in the meantime.
Gaia worship needs to die, even if I have to turn this planet into a desolate wasteland to achive it.
People were right about mutants the whole time.
Of course there's the "late stage capitalism" meme! Fuckers will never admit all all the faults of "LSC" are caused by government meddling.
This is sickening. Is this really what is being sold to people as "heroism" nowadays?
EDIT: This reminds me of that scene in one of the recent X-Men movies where Logan stabs a guy in the hand with a poisoned arrow for shooting a bear with a poisoned arrow and not tracking it down to put it out of it's misery. I'm sorry, but in no world is killing a man just recompense for killing a bear. They tried to spin it as a cool moment but it totally took me out of the movie.
The ridiculous head antlers tells me all I need to know about the mental illness of those consuming this shit.